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Inedible food

Q:

My family likes to reward my JRT, BoyBoy with grapes and chocolate-chip cookies. But I read from somewhere that dogs cannot eat anything deemed as delicacy to humans. What is the list of food inedible to dogs? Please advise.

Goodness! Chocolate and grapes may be a delicacy to us, but to dogs, it's nothing more than junk and toxins. Stop your family from intoxicating BoyBoy further. Refer to this list for food inedible to dogs and the threats it cause. .

List of dangerous food	The danger
Chocolate	Large quantity of chocolate is toxic to dogs and can cause tremors and heart arrhythmias. Small quantity of chocolate is junk food and unhealthy.
Macadamia nuts	Eating even a little quantity of macadamia nuts can cause temporary paralysis.
Tomatoes	Tomatoes contain atropine. Eating tomatoes can cause tremors, heart arrhythmias and dilated pupils.
Onions	Eating a large quantity of onions can cause haemolytic anemia.
Garlic	A small quantity of garlic may repel fleas & ticks, but a large quantity can cause haemolytic anemia.
Grapes & raisins	Eating large quantities of grapes & raisins can cause kidney failure.
Mouldy food	Eating mouldy food can cause severe food poisoning, persistent vomiting, diarrhoea, shock or even death. Note: Your dog is not a garbage. What is unfit for you isn't fit for your dog either.
Ice-cream	Ice-cream contains lactose. Nutritional value: zero. Diarrhoea, persistent vomiting and obesity are a possibility.
Cookies	Diarrhoea. Persistent vomiting. Obesity.
Greasy fatty food	Greasy fatty food can trigger pancreatitis. Pancreatitis causes abdomen pain and vomiting.
Beer & alcohol	Alcohol and beer is toxic. Watching a drunk dog is not funny. It's simply an animal abuse.
Corncobs	Corncob is hard to digest and may be stuck in the digestive tract.
Bread	Large quantities of starch are indigestible and may lead to skin allergy.